Ten things.
No agenda.

01

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

Søren Kierkegaard

You are not performing your life correctly or incorrectly. You are just performing. Notice that for a moment.

02

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.

Viktor Frankl

The next time something irritates you — find the space. It is always there. Most people have never noticed it.

03

A good traveller has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.

Laozi · Tao Te Ching

What would today feel like if you weren't trying to get anywhere?

04

Loneliness does not come from having no people around, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself.

Carl Jung

Name one thing that feels important to you right now that you haven't said out loud to anyone. You don't have to say it. Just name it to yourself.

05

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates

Not as a threat. As an invitation. You are examining yours right now, by being here.

06

I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become.

Carl Jung

Not as motivation. As a structural fact. The past is fixed. What you do with it is still open.

07

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

Carl Jung

Not the edited version. The full version — including the parts you have never shown anyone. What would it cost to accept that?

08

Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.

Chinese proverb

Put down the person you are supposed to be for exactly the next five minutes. See what remains.

09

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

Rumi

Not as consolation. As fact. The thing you are most ashamed of is probably also the door. That is not philosophy. That is pattern.

10

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Marcus Aurelius

You are still beginning. That's what opening a page like this means.